5 Things Mexico Need from Their Game with USA

Mexico has to turn things around to keep their World Cup dream alive. After a painful loss to Honduras at the Estadio Azteca, the Mexican Football Federation sacked coach Jose Manuel de la Torre.

Interim coach Luis Fernando Tena will try to overcome 41 years of winless drought in World Cup qualifiers playing away against the United States.

“The Bars and Stripes” come from a tough loss in front of Costa Rica that saw Jozy Altidore, Geoff Cameron and Matt Besler booked for the second time in the hexagonal hence they will not be eligible to play against “El Tri.”

Get Their Act Together

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Some of the players that had played at its best, failed to deliver a good performance against Honduras.

Diego Reyes is one example of this. Reyes earned Jose Manuel de la Torre's trust and took over Francisco Rodriguez's spot. He did it great in the Confederations Cup and the Ivory Coast friendly, but flunked against "Los Catrachos."

The same thing happened with Angel Reyna, who was going through a fantastic moment in the Liga MX being the top scorer. But with Honduras he forgot to bring the magic to the pitch.

As a group, Mexico have not played with intelligence. Some of the individual efforts had produced results, but now that is not even happening and the cause is lost.